George Will
George Will
George Frederick Willis an American newspaper columnist and political commentator. He is a Pulitzer Prize–winner known for his conservative commentary on politics. In 1986, The Wall Street Journal called him "perhaps the most powerful journalist in America," in a league with Walter Lippmann...
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth4 May 1941
ungrateful feelings ignorant
The masses are still ungrateful or ignorant. They prefer murder, poisonings, and crimes generally to a literature possessed of style and feeling.
writing cutting liberty
We do not precisely enjoy liberty at the Figaro. M. de Latouche, our worthy director (ah! you should know the fellow), is always hanging over us, cutting, pruning, right or wrong, imposing upon us his whims, his aberrations, his fancies, and we have to write as he bids ...
ocean mean writing
Writing a journal means that facing your ocean you are afraid to swim across it, so you attempt to drink it drop by drop.
jealousy jealous being-jealous
The more you lose the right to be jealous, the more so you become!
honesty selling dies
honesty dies in selling itself.
reality years altered
One changes from day to day, and... after a few years have passed one has completely altered.
sex mind
the mind has no sex ...
secret littles prudes
There are no more thorough prudes than those who have some little secret to hide.
mother grief thinking
I loved [fairy stories] so, and my mother weighed down by grief had given up telling me them. At Nohant I found Mmes. d'Ardony's and Perrault's tales in old editions which became my chief joy for five or six years ... I've never read them since, but I could tell each tale straight through, and I don't think anything in all one's intellecutal life can be compared to these delights of imagination.
lying kissing hands
Immodest creature, you do not want a woman who will accept your faults, you want the one who pretends you are faultless - one who will caress the hand that strikes her and kiss the lips that lie to her.
lying experience may
Experience is always a trustworthy guide; it may not tell you everything, but it never lies.
Where there is no longer love, there is no longer anything.
faith like-love want
faith is like love; when you want it you can't find it, and you find it when you least expect it.
unrequited-love love-is errors
Unrequited love is as different from the mutual love as the error from the truth.